The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-07-14

1t was this, chiefly, that detained PROBES
sor Cooper from attending the national
teachers meeting in Chicago.
Instl uctions in detail have been sent out
from the department of education to all
the principals of normal schools relative
to the examination of applicants for
certificates.
From Sundays Dsilyl
The following charters were filed yes
terday: West End Street Car line, of San
Antonio; capital, $4,000. Incorporators:
Il. w. Russ, j. W. Moore, H. B. Andrews,
l.. W. Flores, Thad w. Smith. The Dali
las Passenger Transfer company; capital,
$4,000. Incorpora:ors: W. H. Keller,
B. 81. Brooks, j. M. Davis, W. E. Keller, G.
M. Connaliy, j. T. Brooks and L. X. Parr.
The encouragement yesterday made a
ruling for the superintendent of public
instruction, to the effect that city or
town, incorporated for school purposes
only, as provided in chapter 102, acts of
1881, may, by vote of two thirds majority
of the qualified voters abolish the charter,
as provided in article $40, of the revised
statutes.
Treasury receipts yesterday were $780,
600; disbursements, $1,000.
From Tuesdays Daily.l
State Educational Superintendent
Cooper, yesterday made rulings on nine
points touching the conduct of the schools.
Treasury receipts yesterday, $4,000.
The collectors of Lamar, Brazos and
Red river settled yesterday.
| The Summer normal, at the University,
opens August and closes August 81. Fol-
lowing will be among the subjects:
Theory and practice of teaching, primary
grade work, English grammar and COM
position, arithmetic, physiology, history
of United States and Texas, physics, al
zebra, geometry, American literature,
etc. Lectures will be delivered by Super
intendents Hogg, Hobbs, Sutton, Prof.
Bringhurst and others.
The governor yesterday declined to in
terpose executive clemency in behalf of
one A. f. Brown, convicted in Bosque
county of embezzlement. This was case
purely of feminine interference. The
record shows clear case against the
man, while the petition, which is
signed, it is claimed, by every
woman in Bosque county, demands
his pardon in the name of humanity, be-
cause he is i'll and not expected to live to
go to the penitentiary. The governor
was waited on by committee of ladies.
who urged the appeal, but when law is on
one side and sentiment on the other, it
doesn't take long for an old soldier like
the general to decide. He refused the
pardon, and referred the attorneys who
were engineering the application to Sec
ton of the law which provides a habeas
corpus remedy for the case. The
governor sympathlzes with the
party in his illness, but the facts, he says,
do not warrant pardon, and he there
fore places the matter in the channel OF
the courts.
The encouragement has made ruling
that where a person has paid the liquor
tax before the new law took effect, but
failed to give the bond required under
the old law, before the new law took eff
feet, he is now required to give the
bond required in the new law. To
enjoy the exemptions of the new law, the
party must have complied in all respects
with the old law before the new took eff
feet. The bond and date of giving it de.
termine the right of the parties, as to
whether they shall operate under the old
or new law.
The following charters were filed yes
terday: Farmers Roller Mill company
of Trenton, Texas; capital, 100000. In
corporators: WA. jackson, j. B. Foster
w. N. Stone, d. B. Saunders, w. C.Holmes
and Julius Naiser.
Mexican Gulf Ship Channel Dock and
Wharf company, of Ingleside, San Patri
clio county; capital, $1,000,O0O. Incorpor
ators: j. j. Caruthers, T. P. McCampbell
R. W. Stayton, j. j. Welder, Nancy G
Vineyard, j. M. Brownson, R. E. Vine
yard, Z. L. Dunlap, G. W. Fulton, jr., ant
j. G. Hatch.
From Wednesdays Daily.l
The following charter was filed yester
day: The Moses Montefore Congrega
ton Adath Israel, of Marshall
The superintendent of public instruc-
ton made the following ruling yesterday
Community schools must be organized il
strict conformity to the law. Chapte
VIII, section 3, is an essential part o.
the law.
The assessor, as such, has no authorit,
to get up community petitions or Il
place the names of children on such petit
tions.
Amount in the county treasury subject
to apportionment to the communities
according to scholastic census. If com
munities do not organize, the amount
which should be apportioned to them re-
mains in the county treasury unused, un
til the next scholastic year, when it be-
comes part of the fund in the county
subject to apportionment. See Schoo
Law, chapter VI, sections and 6.
The county judge may assign children
whose names do not appear on any COM
munity petition, to some convenient
community.
Chapter XII, section 2, of the school
law, gives to children of scholastic age re-
siding in any district or community, the
right to attend school in such community
irrespective of the fact that the name OF
the child appears on the community list
or census roll.
The three persons named in the com
mun1ty petition must be appointed a:
trustees by the county judge, unless hi
knows them to be incompetent or un
worthy.
The county Judge has no right to ap
point trustees in community until {
petition has been presented to him in &C
cordance with the law. He has no righ
to apportion money to an uniformed com
munity.
The land commissioner has received III
applications to lease school lands undel
| tie new law About One-half of these OF